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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #22 / 406
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #83 / 1621
  • Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #137 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #143 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #139 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1564 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #30 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 2
Deleting folded text - 350 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #79 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1435 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #43 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 608 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #47 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #164 / 409
  • Number of attempts: 2
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